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balloonian variable
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2014-04-26 15:54:15 +00:00
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n. [Commodore users; perh. a deliberate phonetic mangling of boolean
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variable ?] Any variable that doesn't actually hold or control state, but
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must nevertheless be declared, checked, or set. A typical balloonian
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variable started out as a flag attached to some environment feature that
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either became obsolete or was planned but never implemented. Compatibility
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concerns (or politics attached to same) may require that such a flag be
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treated as though it were live.
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